2 U.S. Code § 1501 - Purposes

(1)to strengthen the partnership between the Federal Government and State, local, and tribal governments;

(2)to end the imposition, in the absence of full consideration by Congress, of Federal mandates on State, local, and tribal governments without adequate Federal funding, in a manner that may displace other essential State, local, and tribal governmental priorities;

(A)providing for the development of information about the nature and size of mandates in proposed legislation; and

(B)establishing a mechanism to bring such information to the attention of the Senate and the House of Representatives before the Senate and the House of Representatives vote on proposed legislation;

(4)to promote informed and deliberate decisions by Congress on the appropriateness of Federal mandates in any particular instance;

(5)to require that Congress consider whether to provide funding to assist State, local, and tribal governments in complying with Federal mandates, to require analyses of the impact of private sector mandates, and through the dissemination of that information provide informed and deliberate decisions by Congress and Federal agencies and retain competitive balance between the public and private sectors;

(6)to establish a point-of-order vote on the consideration in the Senate and House of Representatives of legislation containing significant Federal intergovernmental mandates without providing adequate funding to comply with such mandates;

(A)requiring that Federal agencies develop a process to enable the elected and other officials of State, local, and tribal governments to provide input when Federal agencies are developing regulations; and

(B)requiring that Federal agencies prepare and consider estimates of the budgetary impact of regulations containing Federal mandates upon State, local, and tribal governments and the private sector before adopting such regulations, and ensuring that small governments are given special consideration in that process; and

(8)to begin consideration of the effect of previously imposed Federal mandates, including the impact on State, local, and tribal governments of Federal court interpretations of Federal statutes and regulations that impose Federal intergovernmental mandates.

This chapter, referred to in text, was in the original “this Act”, meaning Pub. L. 104–4, Mar. 22, 1995, 109 Stat. 48, known as the Unfunded Mandates Reform Act of 1995. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note below and Tables.

Short Title

Pub. L. 104–4, § 1,Mar. 22, 1995, 109 Stat. 48, provided that: “This Act [enacting this chapter and sections
658 to
658g of this title, amending sections
602,
632, and
653 of this title, and enacting provisions set out as notes under sections
1511 and
1531 of this title] may be cited as the ‘Unfunded Mandates Reform Act of 1995’.”

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